検索キーワード： 第二次世界大戦

Vent'anni dopo la fine della guerra, Horst Krüger - scrittore, giornalista, tra i più lucidi interpreti delle trasformazioni della società tedesca - torna a Eichkamp, il piccolo, insignificante quartiere alla periferia di Berlino dov'è cresciuto con i genitori e la sorella. Qui, ricorda Krüger, viveva gente compassata, timorata; gente come suo padre e sua madre che mai si erano interessati alla politica, un agglomerato di buona piccola borghesia lavoratrice che si ritrovò, quasi inconsapevolmente, a far parte del partito.

They were crop dusters and debutantes, college girls and performers in flying circuses—all of them trained as pilots. Because they were women, they were denied the opportunity to fly for their country when the United States entered the Second World War. But Great Britain, desperately fighting for survival, would let anyone—even Americans, even women—transport warplanes. Thus, twenty-five daring young aviators bolted for England in 1942, becoming the first American women to command military aircraft.

A powerful, unsparing new history of World War II, recasting the conflict as a brutal struggle for survival among declining and ascendant imperial powers In popular memory, the Second World War was an unalloyed victory for freedom over totalitarianism, marking the demise of the age of empires...

From an award-winning historian comes a fresh analysis of the rise of Nazi extremism, how such thinking gained popularity, and why it is vital to fight burgeoning extremist movements today How could the SS have committed the crimes they did? How were the killers who shot Jews at close quarters...

Après le grand succès de son De Gaulle et Churchill, la mésentente cordiale, un nouveau face à face entre deux géants. D'un côté, le président des Etats-Unis, politicien brillant, retors et manipulateur. De l'autre, le chef de la France libre, visionnaire, intransigeant, soupçonneux à l'extrême et animé d'un patriotisme exacerbé.

Héros de la Grande Guerre, putschiste improvisé, chômeur morphinomane, homme d'affaires talentueux, dandy corpulent, orateur tonitruant, ministre de l'Intérieur sans scrupules, parvenu millionnaire, collectionneur d'art compulsif, maréchal de l'Air amateur, tel est Hermann Goering, le deuxième homme du IIIe Reich. Voici, grâce à une abondante documentation allemande, anglaise, américaine et suédoise, ainsi qu'à l'interview de témoins tels que l'aide de camp d'Adolf Hitler, le régime national-socialiste revisité au travers d'un personnage démesuré – à tous les sens du mot.

In The People's War, John Willis unearths untold stories of everyday bravery, moments of terror, and tales of life-affirming community, that guide us through the years of the Second World War. From soldiers in North Africa and prisoners of war in East Asia, to evacuees in the British countryside and women in the factories, The People's War is a truly ambitious and comprehensive journey through a devastating and pivotal period of our history, as you've never read before.

Prachtige, hartverscheurende memoires over de Holocaust, waarin Sara Leibovits en haar dochter Eti Elboim samen vertellen hoe Sara als jong meisje Auschwitz wist te overleven, als enige van haar hele familie. De trein kwam langzaam tot stilstand met piepende remmen. Het was donderdagochtend 18 mei 1944. Al sinds maandag hadden we in de duisternis en smerigheid van de veewagon opeengepakt gezeten en hongergeleden. Onze reisgenoten waren tranen, beklemming en onze angst voor het onbekende geweest. Het zestienjarige Joodse meisje Sara Leibovits zat samen met haar familie in deze trein.

Grasshopper Pilot gives long-overdue attention and credit to the crucial role these courageous men played in combat and adds valuable information to an understudied dimension of the war.

Monatelang brandete 1945 eine Selbstmordwelle durch Deutschland, die Tausende - Frauen, Männer und Kinder - in den Untergang riss. In welchen Abgrund hatten die Menschen geblickt, dass sie angesichts der Befreiung vom Dritten Reich nur im Tod einen Ausweg sahen? Aus der Sicht derer, die das unfassbare Geschehen selbst miterlebt haben, erzählt der Historiker Florian Huber von dem größten Massenselbstmord der deutschen Geschichte und seiner Verdrängung durch die Überlebenden – ein fesselnder Blick auf die Gefühle der kleinen Leute, die in ihren Untergang marschierten.

Charlotte Beradt began having unsettling dreams after Adolf Hitler took power in 1933. She envisioned herself being shot at, tortured and scalped, surrounded by Nazis in disguise, and breathlessly fleeing across fields with storm troopers at her heels. Shaken by these nightmares and banned as a Jew from working, she began secretly collecting dreams from her friends and neighbors, both Jewish and non-Jewish. Disguising these "diaries of the night" in code and concealing them in the spines of books from her extensive library, she smuggled them out of the country one by one.

An American Hero: One Man’s Legacy of Fatherhood and Faith is a poignant and inspiring journey through four generations, revealing how one World War II survivor’s resilience, integrity, and unwavering faith forged a life-giving legacy that transformed not only his family but also countless lives around him.

This book presents the remarkable personal journals of German soldier Hans Roth. Writing as events transpired, he recorded the mystery and tension as the Germans deployed on the Soviet frontier in June 1941. In these journals, battles are described in "you are there" detail, as Roth wrote privately, as if to keep himself sane, knowing that his honest accounts of the horrors in the East could never pass through Wehrmacht censors.

The gripping, true, and untold history of the Italian anti-fascist resistance during World War II, told through the stories of four spectacularly courageous women fighters From underground soldiers to intrepid spies, Women of War unearths the hidden history of the brave women who risked their...

My dearest Mr Snippet… World War II has just begun, and newly-married John, a young cadet army officer from London, has been forced to leave behind his beloved wife Rita. As each of them desperately try to hold onto their joint hopes and dreams, will fate grant them the future they dream of, or will the unpredictabilities of a relentless war conspire against them?

Of the 16 million people who served in the Second World War, perhaps less than half a million are still alive (as of this writing). Regrettably, these veterans are currently dying at a rate of approximately 500 per day. Brookdale Creve Coeur is a local senior living facility in the suburbs of St. Louis that houses a number of these veterans. It also happens to be where the author's 85-year-old father recently moved. Places like Brookdale contain a treasure trove of remarkable and inspiring stories from World War Two.

Neste trabalho rigoroso de pesquisa histórica, Eric Kurlander desfaz mitos sobre a ligação do nazismo a forças sobrenaturais ao mesmo tempo que encontra inúmeras evidências de como o Partido Nacional-Socialista surgiu em um meio que acreditava em teorias da conspiração delirantes e que, depois, passou a alimentar uma gama de irracionalidades. Os monstros de Hitler, trabalho de fôlego de Eric Kurlander, desvia dos exageros e mostra com vasta pesquisa a conexão real entre seitas com crenças abstrusas e o mais alto escalão do Partido.

Packed with fresh and surprising stories, 1945: The Reckoning takes listeners on a spectacular journey from the deadly jungles of Burma through hospital ships on Indian rivers and copper mines in Formosa to the 'lost trains' of the Belsen concentration camp. As the fate of the world is decided so too is that of the British Empire and in India millions of men and women struggle to decide whether to support 'the Raj' or fight alongside the Japanese.

When the Second World War began, there were 10 million children living in Britain. Many were evacuated to the countryside, but others stayed behind and witnessed the Blitz close-up in cities around the UK. Blitz Kids tells the remarkable true stories of children who spent their nights in cold, cramped air-raid shelters, hearing the rumble of planes and the crash of bombs overhead.

A moving account of how war is remembered – and by whom 'Impressive. A hundred individual histories, skillfully assembled, built into a poignant meditation on why they still matter' David Olusoga 'Brilliant' Piers Morgan Bestselling historian Tessa Dunlop travels the length and breadth of the...